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Tropical nature, and other essays (1878)

Author: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Subject: Natural history; Natural selection; Botany -- 19th Century; Evolution -- 19th Century; Zoology -- 19th Century; Tropics
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co.
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 04312421
Digitizing sponsor: MBLWHOI Library
Book contributor: MBLWHOI Library
Collection: biodiversity; MBLWHOI; blc; americana

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I. The climate and physical aspects of the equatorial zone.--II. Equatorial vegetation.--III. Animal life in the tropical forests.--IV. Humming-birds: as illustrating the luxuriance of tropical nature.--V. The colours of animals and sexual selection.--VI. The colours of plants and the origin of the colour-sense.--VII. By-paths in the domain of biology.--VIII. The distribution of animals as indicating geographical changes

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